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Forwarding a Picture using Email

Reader Geraldine Astbury wrote recently with a problem she was having with Windows and emailing:
Hi Terry,
Please can you help me? When I do a right click on a photo and scroll down to ‘mail recipient’ it goes to my Mozilla email programme. How do I change it to go to either Outlook Express [...]

Compacting Email Folders

There is a little trick to the way POP3 email program like Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora and Thunderbird store the email messages you receive. A “deleted message” is not really deleted! Did you know that?
All your email program does is to rewrite a few characters in the file in order to tell itself that [...]

Eudora to Become Open-Source

The final commercial version of my favorite email program Eudora was issued during the week of October 15, 2007. We finally got a new version, updating from v7.01 to 7.1.0.9.
There was another piece of good news — in plain sight — further down the web page at www.Eudora.com. Qualcomm, the phone manufacturer, has finally decided [...]

Email Reliability in this Internet World

How reliable is email in today’s Internet world? Perfect, isn’t it? You would think that it would be completely reliable — we use it all the time. All we’re doing is pushing around electrons and we’ve known how to do that, in one way or another, for an awfully long time.
Whether we [...]

When I delete an email, it’s gone — right?

There is a little trick to the way POP3 email programs like Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora and Thunderbird store the email messages you receive. A “deleted message” is not really deleted! Did you know that?
Outlook and Outlook Express store all the emails in one huge file, even if you have your emails split between [...]